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Social Entrepreneurship ist eine Form des Unternehmertums, die einen sozialen Auftrag mit einem wettbewerbsfähigen Leistungsversprechen verbindet. Insbesondere fördert Social Entrepreneurship eine gerechtere Gesellschaft, indem es soziale Fragen anspricht und versucht, eine nachhaltige Wirkung durch eine soziale Mission und nicht durch reine Gewinnmaximierung zu erzielen. Das Thema Social Entrepreneurship hat sich auf viele verschiedene Forschungsrichtungen ausgeweitet. Der Fokus darauf, zu verstehen, wie und warum Unternehmer denken und handeln, bleibt eine wichtige Rechtfertigung für die zukünftige Forschung. Dennoch steckt die theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Phänomen noch in den Kinderschuhen. Sociale Entrepreneurship-Forschung ist nach wie vor weitgehend Phänomen getrieben. Insbesondere die Forschung zur sozialunternehmerischen Absicht befindet sich in einem frühen Stadium und es fehlt an quantitativer Forschung. Daher wird in dieser Arbeit vorgeschlagen, diese Notwendigkeit zu adressieren. Damit verfolgt die Dissertation zwei Ziele: (1) ein Modell für soziale unternehmerische Intentionen im Allgemeinen zu entwickeln und (2) das Modell durch eine empirische Studie zu testen. Auf der Grundlage dieser Ziele, sind die beiden leitenden Forschungsfragen: (1) Welche Faktoren beeinflussen die Absicht einer Person ein Social Entrepreneur zu werden? (2) Welche Beziehungen bestehen zwischen diesen Faktoren?
Um diese beiden Forschungsfragen zu beantworten, erscheint ein Forschungsdesign zielführend, das eine Kombination aus Literaturrecherche und empirischer Studie darstellt. Die Literaturrecherche basiert auf einem umfassenden Angebot an Büchern, Artikeln und Forschungsarbeiten, die in führenden akademischen Zeitschriften und Konferenzberichten in verschiedenen Disziplinen wie Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship Education, Management, Sozialpsychologie und Sozialökonomie veröffentlicht wurden. Die empirische Studie umfasst eine Befragung von 600 Studierenden im letzten Studienjahr an vier Universitäten in drei Regionen Vietnams: Hanoi, Da Nang und Ho Chi Minh. Die Daten werden mit SPSS-AMOS Version 24 unter Verwendung von Screening-Daten, Maßstabsentwicklung, explorativer und konfirmativer Faktorenanalyse analysiert. Die Dissertation findet heraus, dass Entrepreneurship Experience/Extra-curricular Activity, Role Model, Social Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy und Social Entrepreneurial Outcome Expectation sich direkt und positiv auf die Absicht der vietnamesischen Studierenden auswirken, Social Entrepreneurs zu sein. Entrepreneurship Education beeinflusst auch die Social Entrepreneurial Intention, aber nicht direkt, sondern indirekt über Social Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy und Social Entrepreneurial Outcome Expectation. Ebenso hat Perceived Support keinen direkten Bezug zu Social Entrepreneurial Intention, zeigt aber eine indirekte Verbindung über den Mediator Social Entrepreneurial Outcome Expectation. Darüber hinaus bringt die Dissertation neue Einblicke in die Social Entrepreneurship-Literatur und liefert wichtige Implikationen für die Praxis. Einschränkungen und zukünftige Richtungen sind auch in der Dissertation enthalten.
Implementation of Agile Software Development Methodology in a Company – Why? Challenges? Benefits?
(2019)
The software development industry is enhancing day by day. The introduction of agile software development methodologies was a tremendous structural change in companies. Agile transformation provides unlimited opportunities and benefits to the existing and new developing companies. Along with benefits, agile conversion also brings many unseen challenges. New entrants have the advantage of being flexible and cope with the environmental, consumer, and cultural changes, but existing companies are bound to rigid structure.
The goal of this research is to have deep insight into agile software development methodology, agile manifesto, and principles behind the agile manifesto. The prerequisites company must know for agile software development implementation. The benefits a company can achieve by implementing agile software development. Significant challenges that a company can face during agile implementation in a company.
The research objectives of this study help to generate strong motivational research questions. These research questions cover the cultural aspects of company agility, values and principles of agile, benefits, and challenges of agile implementation. The project management triangle will show how benefits of cost, benefits of time, and benefits of quality can be achieved by implementing agile methodologies. Six significant areas have been explored, which shows different challenges a company can face during implementation agile software development methodology. In the end, after the in depth systematic literature review, conclusion is made following some open topics for future work and recommendations on the topic of implementation of agile software development methodology in a company.
How entrepreneurs become successful with their business ideas has been a topic of discussion within entrepreneurial research circles for many years. Business success has been related to psychological characteristics and many research findings have explained how people become entrepreneurs and furthermore, how they find success in regards to their business ventures. People always wanted to know what defines an entrepreneur and more importantly, what is needed to become a successful entrepreneur. Curious minds began to search for the recipe for success. Personality Traits have been researched for years, leading to the discovery of many diverse and distinct forms which are still recognized today. Researchers compared the Behavioral Approach or the analysis of demographical characteristics to success.
This raises the question of what an entrepreneur needs to become successful which is made more difficult due to the fact that entrepreneurship and who an entrepreneur is can be difficult do define exactly. Entrepreneurs are diverse and distinct individuals that each possess their own characteristics, behavior and reasons for starting a business. Many people assume that it is just someone who starts their own business. While partially correct, this only scratches the surface of what it is to be an entrepreneur.
This thesis answers the following three research questions: 1. Which personality traits were found in the almost sixty years of researching? 2. What triggers do entrepreneurs need for starting a new business? 3. Which factor makes the entrepreneur successful with their business idea? Also, reading the thesis, one may gain a better understanding of what entrepreneurship is, what defines an entrepreneur and what one needs to become a successful entrepreneur.
In this thesis the reviewing literature method developed by Wolfswinkel et al. (2011) was used to identify suitable literature and references for the main chapters. For that the five stages of the grounded-theory method for reviewing the literature were used in an iterative fashion. In step one inclusion and exclusion criterias for literature were defined. Then literature was searched matching the criterias of step one. In step three the samples were refined. Then in step four the found literature was analyzed and coded before the results of this research was presented in the following text. Many entrepreneurial personality traits were discovered and confirmed during the studies conducted over the last sixty years, these include but are not limited to Need for Achievement, Locus of Control, or risk taking propensity. Motivation is clearly the main trigger to start your own business. During the studies reasons were discovered of how and why an entrepreneur may become successful outside of posessing the right combination of traits. For example: having human, financial and social capital, an entrepreneurial behavior and the right economic conditions to start a business that will survive for more than five years.